Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.